Recent content by Prospero

I think both are relevant points. Flying an air raft is probably much different from (or different to if you're English) 'flying' a plane. One could allow zero-level specializations to limit the skill. Thus flyer (grav)-0 would be a zero level skill limited to only grav apparatus. It...

I was looking at the errata for Mercenary. Boarding vacc suits are cheaper than CA but much heavier. They also have lower protection at the same tech level. So, CA is probably the high-end, big military choice, while the BVS is used by mercs etc. Otherwise they both protect against hard...

Used to be that if you came from a hi-tech world, you got air/raft-0 as a default skill. This skill is no longer available in the background section of chargen. Would you let characters from a hi-tech world take flyer-0 insteead of drive-0 as one of their background skills?

Hey well, at least it makes some sense. Thanks.

Yet cheaper by far...?

What is the difference (besides price) between Combat Armor & Boarding Vacc Suit?

Do I understand these rules correctly? To use a FGMP or PGMP you need to use artillery battle dress. To use art-battle dress, you need BD-2. (according to Mercenary, yes?). If that is the case, most troops even at TL-15 would not be armed with either the FGMP or PGMP. One could pick up...